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Anser is a waterfowl genus that includes the grey geese and the white geese.It belongs to the true goose and swan subfamily of Anserinae under the family of Anatidae. [2] The genus has a Holarctic distribution, with at least one species breeding in any open, wet habitats in the subarctic and cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in summer.
Head of a white Chinese goose A flock of Emden geese A flock of Twente geese Öland goose in pond. One of about 100 in existence. Adler goose (Адлерская) [3] [4] African goose [1] [3] [5] Alsatian goose (Oie d'Alsace) [3] [5] American buff goose [1] [5] Amorstream goose [3] Anhui goose [3] Aonghus goose; Arzamas goose ...
The word "goose" is a direct descendant of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.In Germanic languages, the root gave Old English gōs with the plural gēs and gandra (becoming Modern English goose, geese, gander, respectively), West Frisian goes, gies and guoske, Dutch: gans, ganzen, ganzerik, New High German Gans, Gänse, and Ganter, and Old Norse gás and gæslingr, whence English gosling.
Anseriformes is an order of birds also known as waterfowl that comprises about 180 living species of birds in three families: Anhimidae (three species of screamers), Anseranatidae (the magpie goose), and Anatidae, the largest family, which includes over 170 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans.
150 White-winged scoter: Melanitta deglandi (Bonaparte, 1850) 151 Stejneger's scoter: Melanitta stejnegeri (Ridgway, 1887) 152 Common scoter: Melanitta nigra (Linnaeus, 1758) 153 Black scoter: Melanitta americana (Swainson, 1832) 154 Long-tailed duck: Clangula hyemalis (Linnaeus, 1758) 155 Bufflehead: Bucephala albeola (Linnaeus, 1758) 156 ...
The genus Branta was introduced by the Austrian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1769. [1] The name is a Latinised form of Old Norse Brandgás meaning burnt as in "burnt (black) goose". [ 2 ] The type species is the brant goose ( Branta bernicla ).
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The greylag goose is now one of 11 geese placed in the genus Anser that was erected in 1860 by the French naturalist Mathurin Jacques Brisson. [4] It is the type species of the genus. [ 5 ]